When I was in my twenties, I was fresh out of a graduate program, newly married and totally stupid about professional men in the office.  Daddy just didn't prepare me enough, as I suspect happened to Anita Hill.  Sad but so true.  It was the late seventies, and my boss, who headed a non-profit organization in Austin, Texas, said so many things I don't know where to begin.  Here is a sampling: 1.  "I'm gonna sleep with every woman in this organization."  (I guess this included me). 2.   "Did you have good sex over the weekend with your husband?" 3.   "Can you get her for me?"  (On a return trip from Washington D.C. to Dallas) 4.  "We call you Miss Prim and Proper."  Because I had told the young women in the office about the sexual harrassment legislation, how they didn't have to sleep with him or any other "boss." 5.  "Your problem is that you aren't nice to the boardmembers."  (Mostly men and mostl...

My girlfriend Cecilia just left her job at Amed Community Hospice where she was a social worker for terminally ill patients. Why did she leave after two years there? Because of a man named Chris Sitton, the Bereavement and Volunteer Coordinator , 40 years old, married with a child. Cecilia is a serious, 46 year-old woman, who tells me she loved her job, and that it was very difficult for her to say goodbye to her patients and their families. It isn't easy, or professional, to leave patients who are facing death. But Sitton asked her constantly about her sexual life, she says. He whacked her on her derriere with a newspaper, and asked her things like "So did you get laid this week?" I know what this feels like, and most women I know have encountered sexual harrassment in their lives. But few of us actually fight back. Cecilia told me Sitton harrasses others, but she refused to accept it to keep her job. She went to EEOC, and filed a complaint. Amed In the meantim...